Dec 16 2016

This Week in Forensic Science

No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door!

The Queens District Attorney in New York City is urging the state to authorize familial searching of the state’s DNA data banks in the wake of the unsolved murder of a young woman who was found strangled after she went for a jog.

From rapid genetic analysis to spectrography, high-tech tools are being used to track down and prosecute perpetrators of the illegal wildlife trade – offering hope in stopping the trafficking of endangered species.

Last year, Phoenix police arrested Miller for the infamous Phoenix “canal killings” of the early 1990s—with the big break in the cold case finally coming courtesy of forensic genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick.

The Boulder, Colo. district attorney offered some more insight into the announcement he made this week that prosecutors are looking into using new testing technology to review DNA evidence in the unsolved 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.